Klaus, how soon before you began to see the rotting on the plants in the
sand? 6 months? A year? How deep was that sandbed? What types of
fertilizers were you adding? I'm wondering if there wasn't a micronutrient
issue that stopped their ability to maintain the barrier between the root
fibers and the sulfurous surroundings the anaerobes were creating.
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From: "njz" <njz_at_clevelandmetroparks.com>
I think that we are saying the
> same thing. To bring it home, the more *complex* we make our systems
(more
> plants, fish, inverts, inverts, inverts, etc.), the more stable they
> *should* be, however the harder they crash when they do. As we all know,
we
> are one accident away from a disaster.
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